Tag: Review
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Owner Review: Oris Big Crown Pointer Date – The Versatile Red Dial
Oris are now a well established Swiss watch manufacture, with a solid reputation, a variety of designs and a faithful fan base. The Oris Big Crown Pointer Date models offer a variety of configurations: cases, dials, straps. I was impressed when I tried them on at a local AD, and quickly fell in love with…
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Owner Review: Seiko 5 SNZH55 – More Than a Fifty Fathoms Homage!
So yes, it’s been done to death and everyone knows how amazing it is blah blah blah. I admit I bought into the hype buying this Seiko 5 SNZH55 on an impulse. A few months later it hasn’t seen too much wrist time. Don’t fall into the hype! It’s not a bad watch. Not even…
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Owner Review: Victorinox INOX – Indestructible and Overbuilt
Now, before I begin the review of the Victorinox INOX, there’s something you should know – I’ve been a long-time fan of Victorinox and I own a bunch of their products – from pocket knives and multitools to kitchen knives and wine openers. And I’ve been extremely satisfied with all of them. As a company,…
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Owner Review: Ebel 1911 BTR GMT – The Quizzical Comfort of Cotton Balls
What do you get when you cross a hardcore military born hummer with a Lexus LC coupe … something very much like an Ebel 1911 BTR GMT … It even sounds like a sports car… it’s obviously not! What we have here is the most comfortably curvaceous, brick busting, muscular sports watch I think I’ve…
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Owner Review: Tissot Research Idea 2001 – When 2001 was the Future!
Nick Hayek Jr once made an often repeated statement, “The Swatch watch saved the Swiss industry”. With that in mind, meet the original plastic watch. The Tissot Research IDEA 2001, launched in 1972 as a budget mechanical to fight quartz. The hermetically sealed Calibre 2250 movement is mostly self-lubricating plastic – Astoundingly the only metal…
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Owner Review: Precimax and Dugena – Ebony and Ivory
Recently I rediscovered two watches «in my drawer», a Dugena and a Precimax. After I restrapped them – I started to wear again. The reason why I didn’t wear these watches for a long time: they both only have 34mm cases, which I regard as too small. (They do however wear more like 34.45 on…
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Owner Review: S.U.F Helsinki Myrsky – A Story on My Wrist
S.U.F Helsinki is a small, independent watch brand from Finland, helmed by renowned watchmaker Stepan Sarpaneva, who also produces (handcrafts) watches under his “Sarpaneva Watches” brand. S.U.F stands for “SarpanevaUhrenFabrik”, which is a homage to his Swiss training as a watchmaker, and translates to “Sarpaneva Watch Factory”, which itself is housed in the old cable-factory-turned-cultural-center…
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Owner Review: Squale 60 Atmos – Summer on the Wrist
I don’t know about everyone else, but for me when I purchase a watch it is based on how it looks first and foremost, and everything else second. There are a lot of things that go into the decision to buy a watch (price, brand, movement etc.) but if I don’t like the way a…
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Owner Review: Seiko Alpinist SARB017
Today I’m thinking of the first time I saw an Alpinist dial. It was the Seiko Alpinist SARB017 with its beautiful green dial, lumed golden cathedral hands and golden markers (Arabic even numerals and stretched bullet shaped odd hour markers). I was smitten. Research helped me learn a little of the interesting history behind the…
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Owner Review: Seiko 5 SRPD76 Rose Gold – How I Learned to Love a Gold Watch
Scene; 2020. A global pandemic rages; violence, fires, locusts, and murder hornets are everywhere. Hell’s creaking doors (or whatever version of The Bad Place you may subscribe too) have opened. The end becons. Nothing good is on the horizon. Then one day on IG, I see this watch: the new Seiko 5 rose gold PVD.…
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That dial is just fntastic.
Very cool watch. I have always wondered about the bronze models. Is the caseback bronze as well? If so do…